Today , Let’s talk about the different types of silks that are commonly used to make ties. Here at Tie Supplier, we are a leading tie manufacturer based in China, with one of the largest collections of ties available anywhere on the internet, and I just love a beautiful tie, and that’s why we’ve got such great collection. I’ve spent a lot of time really developing our premium grade ties to ensure that they knot beautifully and very easily.

We’ve all experienced some ties that are just impossible to tie good knots, and we have worked on the linings of our ties to really make knotting them up beautifully really effortless. But in today’s video, I just wanted to go through some of the basic types of silks that are used in making ties and talk a little bit about what makes them different and interesting. So first and foremost, I’m going to start with something that is a little bit on the obscure side, and that is a grenadine.

Grenadines are very unique because it’s actually a solid knitted silk, right? So this is knitted on a loom. It’s not woven, it’s knitted. And what I love about grenadines is the rich visual texture you get with the grenadine tie.

It really is able to play into something that is simple and very elegant, yet still offers rich visual detail in a solid tie. It’s really actually difficult to do. Another interesting fact about grenadine ties is that they’re only made in the Italian region of Como.

There’s only like one or two mills left in the world that are able to knit grenadine ties, and they’re knitted on looms that are almost 100 years old. So a grenadine is a little bit of a specialty tie, and it’s just all the more reason that I love these. They’re super easy to wear.

They’re foundational. I mean, this navy tie could easily go with what I’m wearing today. Now there’s two different types of grenadines.

You’ve got grenadine fina, which has a very kind of a small tight weave pattern to it. This is a navy grenadine fina. Very formal, very beautiful, very easy to wear.

But right here I have a burgundy grenadine grossa. Now the grenadine grosses have a larger weave. It makes it a more casual tie, less formal.

Now you could get away wearing this at night, but I would say that the grenadine grosses are kind of more daytime ties, whereas the grenadine finas, and like a dark navy or a black, is a beautiful tie in the evening time. Next we’re going to go to printed silk. So printed silk, first you weave the silk.

It comes out on sheets, and then it’s going to be printed to give it its design. So there’s several different types of printed silk ties, and we’ve got a huge collection here at Tie Supplier. Now first you have your Macclesfields.

Now Macclesfields is a town in England that was known for a certain type of tie that they made. They’re printed silk ties, and really the Macclesfield refers to the pattern. Generally Macclesfields have smaller, slightly more symmetric patterns, and so this is a great example of a printed silk Macclesfield.

These are great ties. These are the ties that you see, you know, 90% of the time they’re printed silk ties. Now what I like about a good printed silk tie is that you can get really beautiful, kind of varying, you know, patterns and designs.

I mean there’s just really no limit in what you can find. So this is a Macclesfield, but another example of how you can have a printed silk tie be different is this is our London Dot tie. Beautiful tie, again, would go perfect with this double-breasted navy blazer that I’m wearing today, and we’ve got this in several different colors.

And then also, again, going into the obscure and interesting, one of my favorite types of printed silk tie is something called an ancient matter tie. Now ancient matter ties are still technically printed silk, but it’s dyed using a very ancient and really quite secretive dye process that creates a beautiful kind of chalky hand, right? So it’s got kind of a nice chalky dry texture to it, but it also creates some very unique colors that are really only possible to achieve during the ancient matter kind of dyeing process. Now how ancient matter ties are dyed is basically first the tie is printed, so it’s a raw silk tie, a raw silk.

It’s printed, but these areas kind of of the blue that you see, and here’s another beautiful, this is probably my favorite ancient matter, you see these indigo blues. So whenever this tie is printed, that is actually unprinted silk right there. Then what happens is the entire silk is dipped into an indigo dye vat, right, that then fills in that background color and gives it kind of this beautiful color.

And apparently one of the things that makes ancient matter very difficult is how the indigo dye bath interacts with the actual printed dye colors. And then the silk breaks down during this process, and again kind of giving it that really interesting kind of chalky hand. So these are two examples of ancient matter ties, two of my favorite ties.

Absolutely love these. And ancient matter is really kind of a difficult tie to find. There’s really only one place left in the United Kingdom that can even print or make silk in the ancient matter method, and so these are what I like to say kind of connoisseur’s ties.

One of the other words for a printed silk tie that you may have heard are foulards, and a foulard is just basically French for printed silk tie. So it’s one of the things that can make ties a little bit confusing is you have the English name and the French name, and a great example here is jacquards. Well what’s a jacquard? Well that’s just French for a woven silk tie.

Now what I love about woven silk ties or jacquards is the beautiful rich texture that you receive. Now this design in the jacquard is actually woven into the silk at the mill, right? So it’s not being printed on a blank piece of silk, and what you get with the jacquard again is a beautiful rich texture. Now generally with jacquards you’re able to have I guess less complex designs because again it’s being woven into the silk, but if done well you can get an absolutely beautiful and rich visual detail here that you don’t get with the printed silk tie.

This is another kind of favorite tie, and this is was a little bit of a standout for us. Whenever we ordered these, you know, I just I fell in love with this tie more than I would have expected, and that gold and yellow just really stands out, and again I mean this is an absolutely beautiful tie that would work great with this navy blazer. And all of our ties here at Tie Supplier, whenever I’m selecting the silks, one of the things that I’m really focusing on is which designs are going to be timeless and classic and easy to wear.

I mean that’s one of the greatest criteria I think when selecting a tie is you want it to be easy to wear. You don’t want it to be difficult to pair, and all of the designs that we have I’d say really fall into the category of just beautiful classics ties that you can enjoy really for the rest of your life and really never have to worry about them not knotting well. Jacquards.

I’ve got a lot of jacquards in my wardrobe. Let’s see another class of jacquards. So this is a woven tie, but it’s a stripe, right? And again you know this alternating navy silver and navy silver.

A silver is actually woven into the silk. It’s not printed. It’s not dyed, and again you see that kind of twill which is that kind of the pattern here.

A beautiful kind of rich design, and this is another tie. Again I mean I didn’t really do this on purpose. That would just go beautifully with this navy blazer that I’m wearing right now.

So you know I might be cheating a little bit. This is a navy blazer. One of the things I love about a navy blazer is that again it’s so easy to pair, but I mean this is a beautiful tie.

It works perfectly with the navy blazer. I mean this is so formal. This would be perfect with a business suit, and then honestly even pushes you know the boundary on a wedding tie that you could wear to a wedding.

We have this in several different colorways. I mean navy and silver is as classic as it gets, but we’ve got other really equally classic designs. Now this is a similar tie, but different.

This is a stripe. It’s woven, but it has a larger kind of pattern to it, and this is what we would call a rep tie. Traditionally these rep ties were assigned to different British regiments.

It’s really kind of a military tie if you will, but there’s a lot of really interesting kind of designs here, and again slightly more casual if you will compared to this one, but still very interesting, and we have a lot of rep ties that kind of tie back to various of the British regiments. This particular tie is of the Blues and Royals in the UK, and this particular regiment was the regiment that Prince Harry and Prince William were members of, so it’s kind of fun little historical facts like that. That’s one of the things I really enjoy about regiment ties, and most of the regiment ties we have on the website.

We have a small little description of the historical background there. Another beautiful jacquard tie. This is a diamond point tie, and again it’s woven.

A very simple, very kind of tight, clean pattern. It still has a visual texture and richness, and that’s because it’s a jacquard tie. This is another one of my favorites.

I have this tie in burgundy also, and several different colorways, and again this is such a classic, such an easy to wear tie. This tie really exemplifies everything I love about a beautiful tie, and of course you can see the beautiful knot with the great dimple. I mean those are kind of the final touches that really sets a tie apart, and then finally we have another kind of category of tie.

These are our our satin ties. Now satins probably were made famous by Regis Philbin. I mean we all remember Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

That was kind of his tie. I think he honestly gave satin ties a bad rap. Our satin ties aren’t the Regis Philbin satin ties.

These are beautiful, really luxurious, heavy satin silk. They are, as you can see, all solid ties. Great for weddings, great for the evening time.

I mean this tie kind of, you know, has a little bit of sheen to it, so it’s a little bit louder if you’re looking to make a little bit of a statement, but in the evening time, I think a solid satin tie really is a beautiful choice. And one of the other things Regis did is he insisted on pairing his satin ties with an almost matching monochromatic shirt. So as long as you don’t do that, you know, you can wear a satin tie and absolutely make it look elegant and beautiful.

So there we go. I mean as you can see, we’ve got a huge selection of ties here. You know, we’ve got our permanent collection that’s available in two lengths, 150 centimeters, a kind of standard eight and a half inch width, but then also a long 160 centimeters for taller gentlemen.

And then we have our seasonal collection, which we offer in that 150s only. But as you can see, a huge selection of ties. I love ties.

I love collecting them. I love wearing them. And that’s why here at Tie Supplier, we have one of the largest selection of beautiful handmade ties available anywhere on the internet.

As a professional tie manufacturer based in China, we control every step of production to ensure premium quality and craftsmanship. All of those small details, those elements of quality and craftsmanship that you would really expect here at Tie Supplier, you can find in our ties.

From, you know, the attention that we put into the linings to ensure that they knot beautifully, to the weight, to the proportions, even down to something as small as just kind of the double tacking we have, you know, here in the back. It’s a small detail. All of our ties are self-tipped, where we have the same silk on the tipping, on the large blade and the small blade.

Here you can actually see, you know, their hand slipped and you can see the small little kind of slipping knot here at the end. And that’s really important. We’ll get into why that’s important in another video.

So this is just kind of a brief overview of the different types of silks that are used to make ties that you can find here at Tie Supplier. I hope you found this informative. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments section below.

I’m happy to answer all of your questions. And of course, please make sure you visit tiesupplier.com, your trusted source for high-quality custom ties and premium neckwear from China.